Ghana’s Government has given the green light for contractors to complete construction of the facilities being built for the 2023 African Games in Accra.

modernising the University of Ghana Stadium, which is due to be the centrepiece of the Games, hosting the athletics

There is a wave of optimism spreading the world of aquatics after the governing body for the sport opted for a name change and a new vision.

called "World Aquatics".The name change came as a surprise to nobody as they joined the likes of World Athletics

More Kenyan athletes have been given suspensions by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the latest including

label of the product.Sprinter Mark Otieno Odhiambo is one of three Kenyan athletes suspended by the Athletics

this month, Kenyan Sports Minister Ababu Namwamba said the country needed to "criminalise doping" in athletics

When, three days ago, FIFA President Gianni Infantino described the 2022 World Cup finals which have been so controversially hosted by Qatar as "the best-ever" - well, call me cynical, but the phrase "he would say that, wouldn’t he?" came to mind.

The immoveable object versus the irresistible force.In athletics terms, it was maybe Haile Gebrselassie

Peter Ivanov has returned as President of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) following the end

return to the RusAF fold.It comes at a crucial time for the RusAF, which has been suspended by World Athletics

since 2015 because of a doping crisis within Russian athletics but has been edging closer to reinstatement

I congratulate Peter on his return to the post of President of the Russian Athletics Federation," said

Ivanov, is to return to her position as first vice-president of the organisation.In November, World Athletics

Russia Taskforce chair Rune Andersen told the World Athletics Council there was "a new culture of good

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) is entering its final preparations for a busy year after setting the final registration deadlines for its events set to take place in 2023.

from May 16 to 23, with registration already closed.It is then back to Turkey for the ISF World School Athletics

Retired judge and one-time Olympic sprinter Hugh Fraser has been elected the new chair of Hockey Canada.

courts for three decades and has a background as an arbitrator for various sporting bodies, including Athletics

A delegation from the International School Sport Federation (ISF) met with the Local Organising Committee and ISF Technical Committee Presidents to discuss preparations for the Bahrain 2024 Gymnasiade.

that will host the 25 sports in the 2024 Gymnasiade programme.Competition is expected to happen in athletics

and Para-athletics, archery, badminton, 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, chess, judo and Para-judo

Julian Widdowson, a renowned sports doctor who was the medical team leader for athletics at the London

for three years after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO) at a recent 10 kilometres race, the Athletics

Championships ©Getty ImagesOn the track he won 3,000 metres steeplechase silver at the 2016 European Athletics

competition manipulation.Kenya, where Kaya was born, is in the AIU's high-risk Category A for doping.World Athletics

Fifty thousand tickets have been sold for next year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest just

central Europe, as expected, as this is the first time that the region will host the outdoor World Athletics

World Championships are scheduled to take place from August 19 to 27 at the new, purpose-built National Athletics

figures for the first four days has far exceeded all previous estimates and the expectations of World Athletics

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is to replace Mark Emmert as the next President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the non-profit body that regulates student athletes from around 1,100 schools in the United States, it was announced today.

complex and significant challenges, but I am excited to get to work as the awesome opportunity college athletics

college sports have challenged the NCAA's ability to serve as an effective national regulator for college athletics

World Athletics plans to launch a new competition for 2026 in order to maintain the profile and earning

"We want to continue work on 2026," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe told media in a virtual end-of-year

There are no fallow years in athletics."

World Athletics is planning to launch a new two or three-day event in 2026 to maintain athletes' profiles

©Getty ImagesWhile the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships will take place in traditional

greater leeway than they had this year, when the postponed World Athletics Championships in Eugene,

British Esports chief executive Chester King has predicted the industry will bring about major Governmental shifts while also calling on his country's leaders to do more to help develop it.

Olympic Committees, then the Government would have to recognise it as a sport alongside the likes of athletics

A century ago, Olympic athletics was exclusively for men but French sportswoman Alice Milliat launched

Paris".Two days after the performance in Paris, she travelled to Bordeaux to compete in the French Athletics

Championships.The French athletics authorities were said to be unaware of the standards she had achieved

as passionately as the piano," Ostermeyer admitted later.After a break of eight years, the European Athletics

of 12.84 metres earned her silver.At home she continued to excel as the Olympic year approached and athletics

 Only 37 were women but they included Ostermeyer.The greatest accolades in women's athletics at